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Pakistan President: Quetta massacre will be avenged

Updated on: 15 August,2016 08:18 AM IST  | 
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The Pakistan government will avenge every life lost to terrorists in Quetta, President Mamnoon Hussain said yesterday

Pakistan President: Quetta massacre will be avenged

Islamabad: The Pakistan government will avenge every life lost to terrorists in Quetta, President Mamnoon Hussain said yesterday. "We are shocked at the Quetta terrorist attack and we stand with the bereaved families," Xinhua news agency quoted Hussain as saying during the country's Independence Day celebration.


A suicide bomber killed 74 people in a Quetta hospital on August 8. "Every Pakistani feels the pain," the President said. "The blood of the innocent people will not go waste. I announce here, the government will take revenge for the blood of the innocent people."


The Islamic State and a Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.


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